The left that controls Oakland is at fault.
Graft, corruption, payoffs...
“not on the fire inspection system”
Hack or bribe your way out of the database.
Because it was a bunch of feel good hippy artists types. Wealthy city people love this type of crowd. They move in like rats, fix up a building, turn the neighborhood in to a hip artsy fartsy hangout, then move on when the land owners kick them out for better paying tenants. SO, if the city has to ‘overlook’ the property so be it. For a perfect example look at the Portland Pearl District.
The Oakland fire chief is an affirmative action sextuplet winner:
Minority.
Female.
Unqualified.
Incompetent.
Corrupt.
Democrat.
The left loves “art” & of course anything that promotes leftist bilge. Therefore = free pass
Nothing more to explain.
Nonsense, Ms. Lopez. Government agencies are hotbeds of featherbedding, so to speak, and are budgeted out the wazoo. They just don't do their jobs, because they don't have to. No matter what disasters, failures, and tragedies occur, nobody is prosecuted, nobody is fired.
A lot of the inspectors knew where to get their free dope, sex and other goodies. Nothing new here...it’s typical for all city code inspection units.
I opened a shop in Corpus Christi, Texas and an inspector failed me for an electrical box that I used to test welding machines. I was lucky, I knew an individual that worked for an industrial electrical company and he was a mutual friend. He arranged to meet me, the inspector and himself at my place of business to “fix” the problem. When he arrived he gave the “inspector” a 500’ roll of heavy nylon rope and the inspector never came back into the building to inspect...instead...gave me the OK.
This is a single factual example but the practice is RAMPANT with ALL public safety inspection units across the country.
Oakland Fire Survivor: Create Affordable, Safe Living Spaces & Stop Treating Artists Like Criminals
Amy Goodman interview of Nihar Blatt
Dec. 9, 2016
Democracy now
https://www.democracynow.org/2016/12/9/oakland_fire_survivor_create_affordable_safe